ARTIST
STATEMENT
The primary inspiration for my work is the phenomenon
of living organisms in the natural world. In particular,
my focus lies in representing life forms, or critical
parts of those, which appear to be in some way suspended
in the fluid and space of their environment. These forms
are evolving, growing, and replicating their way through
their existence, paralleling that of our own. By using
the limitless potential of clay, along with other materials,
the pieces explore these ideas. They reveal a pleasing
convolution of organic form and surface through the
manipulation, distortion, and combination of disparate
yet related natural elements. At the same time, in illustrating
nature through the imagery of animal, botanical, and
cellular biology in this way, the work becomes otherworldly
yet strangely and unnervingly familiar. My intent is
for the pieces to exist in a space of seamless illusion
on their own accord, unfettered by the handicraft of
man. A merging of fantasy and reality in the work is
meant to elicit a degree of tension, furthered by qualities
of somatic sensuality and formal ambiguity. In my work,
these attributes visually and metaphorically relate
to the human condition, and help to evoke a visceral
and emotional response to our experience of the living
world around us.

Aesthetically,
the organic realm is replete with a variety of intricate
detailed organisms, both exquisitely beautiful and wholly
functional. They are beings of complex rhythmic patterns,
elaborate curvilinear volumes, structural symmetries
and asymmetries, growth and differentiation, lucid order
and apparent chaos. A perfect fusion of structure and
function folds and unfolds in the physical entities
in nature, synthesizing life and movement through the
environment. Arriving from this physicality and utility
that exists is also an inherent sexuality, one that
closely relates to our own. There is an undeniable and
striking similarity of humans to other biological organisms;
our forms and the intended function of those forms is
ultimately linked to successful survival and continuation
of the species, be it plant, animal, or human. Sexual
and reproductive structures, embryos and the structures
of necessary locomotion across varied species appear
and develop in remarkably similar ways. It is this relationship
between organisms in nature that is the most provocative
to me. As a result, my work is informed by the aesthetic
potential of representing and altering these structural
and symbolic parallels.

The
physicality and utility of nature interpreted in my
organic forms ultimately serves as a metaphor for our
human experience, emphasizing an exploration of intimate
hidden places and invisible processes. Through careful
articulations of rich surface and delicate mass my work
expresses the diversity and activity of plastic sensual
form, as well as incorporating a sense of grace and
fluidity through implied movement. Veiled and unsettling
references to both human physical and sexual reality
and to foreign organisms are manipulated to cultivate
cognitive mystery, inspire wonder and provoke the viewer.
In doing so, my sculptures intend to animate the mysterious
and potentially emotional nature of our biological surroundings.
The compositions can provide the viewer not only with
sumptuous sensual beauty, but also a more complex experience
somewhere between pain and pleasure, scientific curiosity
and aesthetic ecstasy, attraction and revulsion, terror
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- Lindsay
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